Economic, Demographic, and Security Trends in the Middle East

Terms like “globalism” are dangerous for political science, economic planning, and area studies. They take valid trends sloganize them. Inevitably, academics turn them into intellectual cults, seek to find a few dominant trends to explain a complex world, and then try to fit nations into common molds.

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Anthony H. Cordesman

Anthony H. Cordesman

Former Emeritus Chair in Strategy